Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

N Bellouin, J Quaas, E Gryspeerdt… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols interact with radiation and clouds. Substantial progress made over the past 40
years in observing, understanding, and modeling these processes helped quantify the …

Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals

MG Lawrence, S Schäfer, H Muri, V Scott… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Current mitigation efforts and existing future commitments are inadequate to accomplish the
Paris Agreement temperature goals. In light of this, research and debate are intensifying on …

Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - cambridge.org
Short‑lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

The community earth system model version 2 (CESM2)

G Danabasoglu, JF Lamarque… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An overview of the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) is provided,
including a discussion of the challenges encountered during its development and how they …

High climate sensitivity in the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2)

A Gettelman, C Hannay, JT Bacmeister… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) has an equilibrium climate
sensitivity (ECS) of 5.3 K. ECS is an emergent property of both climate feedbacks and …

[HTML][HTML] Tropical cyclones and climate change assessment: Part I: Detection and attribution

T Knutson, SJ Camargo, JCL Chan… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
An assessment was made of whether detectable changes in tropical cyclone (TC) activity
are identifiable in observations and whether any changes can be attributed to anthropogenic …

Robust evidence for reversal of the trend in aerosol effective climate forcing

J Quaas, H Jia, C Smith, AL Albright… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic aerosols exert a cooling influence that offsets part of the greenhouse gas
warming. Due to their short tropospheric lifetime of only several days, the aerosol forcing …

Machine learning reveals climate forcing from aerosols is dominated by increased cloud cover

Y Chen, J Haywood, Y Wang, F Malavelle… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Aerosol–cloud interactions have a potentially large impact on climate but are poorly
quantified and thus contribute a substantial and long-standing uncertainty in climate …

Invisible ship tracks show large cloud sensitivity to aerosol

P Manshausen, D Watson-Parris, MW Christensen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cloud reflectivity is sensitive to atmospheric aerosol concentrations because aerosols
provide the condensation nuclei on which water condenses. Increased aerosol …

Aerosol-driven droplet concentrations dominate coverage and water of oceanic low-level clouds

D Rosenfeld, Y Zhu, M Wang, Y Zheng, T Goren, S Yu - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Human-made emissions of particulate air pollution can offset part of the
warming induced by emissions of greenhouse gases, by enhancing low-level clouds that …